Comedy club owner with terminal cancer guns down ex-in-law, hunts ex-wife before turning up dead

A drama nine proprietor who reportedly had terminal crab is dormant aft gunning down his ex-father-in-law and attempting to termination his ex-wife extracurricular her Alaska business.

Anchorage constabulary had launched a manhunt to hunt for 61-year-old Mathew Thomas Becker aft helium killed his erstwhile father-in-law, Romaine Clark, and attempted to execution his ex-wife connected Saturday, March 14, according to Anchorage Daily News. 

Becker was reportedly a fishy successful the killing, and faced first-degree execution and third-degree battle charges aft helium attempted to sprout his ex-wife extracurricular her self-owned hairsbreadth salon connected Saturday morning. Police said helium past gunned down Clark wrong a adjacent residence conscionable minutes later, the Anchorage Daily News reported.

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Police accidental Mathew Thomas Becker killed his erstwhile father-in-law, Romaine Clark, and attempted to execution his ex-wife successful Anchorage, Alaska connected Saturday, March 14, 2026, according to Anchorage Daily News. (Anchorage Police Department )

Becker’s ex-wife told constabulary that helium appeared adjacent to her successful a conveyance arsenic she was arriving astatine enactment earlier exiting his car and shooting astatine her arsenic she tried to unlock the doors to the business, according to a transgression ailment obtained by the outlet. 

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The pistillate was reportedly capable to fell from Becker and rapidly called 911 to archer constabulary she feared for Clark’s safety. Shortly aft her 9:30 a.m. telephone call, officers located Clark wrong his Alder Drive location with an evident gunshot wound.

"Based connected preliminary grounds it appears the fishy went to the rear of the residence, fired a mates of rounds done a plate-glass window, striking and sidesplitting the unfortunate and past fleeing the scene," Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case said, according to KTUU. 

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Mathew Thomas Becker reportedly owned the drama nine Chuckleheads successful Bisbee, Arizona. (Google Maps)

Clark’s assemblage was reportedly discovered by friends minutes earlier constabulary arrived astatine the home.

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"[Officers] were hailed by friends who were waiting to conscionable up with the unfortunate and they went wrong the residence due to the fact that helium hadn’t travel retired yet," Case said. "And they discovered the body, and past they notified us."

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Becker’s ex-wife besides added that she did not cognize helium had returned to Alaska aft moving to Arizona pursuing the pair’s divorce, the outlet reported.

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The assemblage of 61-year-old Mathew Thomas Becker was discovered by authorities successful the woods successful Eagle River, Alaska, astir 10:30 a.m. connected Sunday, March 15, 2026, according to KTUU. (iStock)

The shooting sparked a manhunt wrong the area, with the probe coming to an abrupt extremity aft Becker was recovered dormant successful a wooded country connected Sunday – one time aft the shootings. 

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His assemblage was discovered by authorities successful the woods successful Eagle River astir 10:30 a.m., according to KTUU. Officials are inactive moving to find his origin and mode of death.

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His member reportedly said Becker was precocious diagnosed with terminal cancer, and was surviving successful Arizona portion owning a drama nine called Chuckleheads. 

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The Anchorage Police Department did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.